Ep. 582: Building Bigger Black Holes

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 582: Building Bigger Black Holes by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Did you hear the news? Nobel prizes for Black Holes! Now, we know there are stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes, but how do you get from one to the other? How do black holes get more massive?

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0:00.0	A astronomy cast, episode 582, building bigger black holes.
0:12.1	Welcome to astronomy cast for a weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we
0:15.2	help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:18.6	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of the universe today with me is always Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior
0:23.1	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Science at Cosmic Quest.
0:28.6	I'm just the director of Cosmic Quest.
0:30.6	The whole director, not to the director of science.
0:32.2	I know.
0:32.7	I have to do way too much budgeting to simplify the name to director of science.
0:36.8	You wish you got to do more science, less administration.
0:41.7	Yes.
0:42.2	I know the feeling.
0:43.2	Yes.
0:44.5	Yeah.
0:46.4	But speaking of budgeting for Cosmic Quest, we're doing our hangout of thaw next weekend.
0:52.8	So October 24th, 25th this weekend for those of you listening on the podcast.
0:58.0	We're going to do 36 straight hours of fundraising in the name of keeping the science
1:04.4	going for fiscal year 21.
1:06.8	Now normally I would say that's madness.
1:09.3	What kind of maniac will attempt 36 hours?
1:12.4	That's impossible.
1:13.5	And yet you've done this many years.
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